However, among the crowd of nobles packed in this room, not everyone knew how to look forward — the man who just now spilled nonsense about how his family had a Red Imperial Edict and Iron Plaque opened his mouth and asked: "Lord Fang's words have reason, but it is too ideal. You say when the war is over? I ask you, when is it going to be over? A year or two can be counted as 'over', and a decade or two also can be counted as 'over’. Do we have to endure until dirt covers our heads?"

In fact, Fang Qin despised these mobs very much. A large number of these people were the country's giant rats with no achievements, each of them were pretentious, alluding that they were extraordinary. Getting their weak point caught by someone else was also very deserving of them — but unfortunately, he could not express these words, because the fundamental thing that helped him bring these people together was profits. Without profits, even if he howled the great ideal of ‘for the country and the people’ loudly everyday, no one would care.

"Let us not speak of such angry words here, if the war truly did drag on for ten or twenty years, and any national strength is exhausted, not mentioning anyone else, the Emperor won't allow it, and it can never be that long." Fang Qin had to change his view and said, "Allow me to say something from the bottom of my heart: with Yan Wang's status, as long as he doesn't rebel, no one can kill him. However, the same can be said about you gentlemen, with your family background, as long as the Emperor is in power for a day, as long as we don't mess things up ourselves, who can shake our foundation?"

This was more pleasant than the line ‘if you do not seek death yourself, no one can kill you’. Although it had the same meaning, it also scratched the itch the ministers presented. Fang Qin truly was worthy of being the head of Great Liang's noble families, he had been around with these people for decades and had excessive experience.

Sure enough, under his efforts, the imperial court had become considerably more peaceful. The two factions seemed to temporarily retract their weapons, all contradictions were swept under the table, and the internal force of Great Liang ushered in a period of temporary peace.

This lasted for more than three months——

Then an accident happened that caused all of Fang Qin's previous efforts to be for naught.

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